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Nottinghamshire

Also Notts

[not-ing-uhm-sheer, -sher, -ham-]

noun

  1. a county in central England. 854 sq. mi. (2,210 sq. km).



Nottinghamshire

/ -ʃə, ˈnɒtɪŋəmˌʃɪə /

noun

  1. Nottsan inland county of central England: generally low-lying, with part of the S Pennines and the remnant of Sherwood Forest in the east. Nottingham became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Nottingham. Pop (excluding Nottingham): 755 400 (2003 est). Area (excluding Nottingham): 2086 sq km (805 sq miles)

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Sue Fish, who was temporary chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police and previously ran misconduct hearings, reviewed Panorama's footage and said the sergeant's sexualised comments were "completely inappropriate, very misogynistic".

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Under her leadership, in 2016 Nottinghamshire Police became the first force to record misogyny as a hate crime.

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Nottinghamshire Police said four protestors came down before midday, while the others came down shortly after 16:30 BST.

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Butterwick had branches across Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, as well as in Milton Keynes, Rugby in Warwickshire and Retford in Nottinghamshire.

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It said it had deployed 1,000 officers to police the operation and drafted in an extra 500 from other forces including Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Devon and Cornwall.

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